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Indonesia: Anti-palm oil activist murdered in Jakarta

2015-05-23 16:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: An Indonesian activist who opposed unbridled oil palm expansion was stabbed to death before dawn this morning outside a nightclub in South Jakarta. Whether the attack was related to his activism or the spontaneous result of a barroom brawl is not yet clear. But Indonesian media are reporting that one of the assailants shouted "I am a soldier" as he brandished the knife-shaped bayonet that killed Jopi Peranginangin, the 39-year-old head of campaigns for Sawit Watch, which strives for social and...

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